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Paycheck measures top Senate agenda in bid for women’s vote

Democrats are trying to avoid a repeat of the 2010 midterms, in which Republicans capitalized on sentiment against President Obama and the health-care law passed that year to win control of the House and additional seats in the Senate.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is teeing up a slate of measures designed to appeal to women voters. Photo: AP.

April 4 (Bloomberg) — Democrats fighting to retain control of the U.S. Senate know their success could hinge on motivating women supporters to vote in the November election.

To that end, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is teeing up a slate of measures designed to appeal to women voters and to cast Republican candidates as insensitive — or even hostile — to them. The effort will ramp up next week with legislation aimed at closing the gender wage gap.

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